TheEnigmaticT: Although if you ask most of the guys I share the office with, I have a predilection to use words of
brobdignagian scope with dismaying frequency.
Wishbone: An interesting example of a word from literature which has been incorporated into the actual language itself.
Can anyone come up with more?
One of my favourites is
robotics. Granted, it's not significantly sesquipedalian, but I find the origin of the word funny. Isaac Asimov coined it back in 1941 without knowing it. He used it in his robot stories, thinking the word already existed. As it happens, it didn't exist, so he is credited with being the originator of the word.
Edit:
Oh, and
chortle and
galumphing, both from Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, are officially recognized words now.
I would proffer cyberspace and the opposite meatspace, although they're not especially lengthy words. Supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious would be a preposterously long contrived word from literature, but it's referenced above.
Depending on your definition of "literature", I could offer "jovial" and "serene"?
